Nicole B. Thomas, FACHE

Nicole Thomas, FACHE, is hospital president of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, responsible for the operational and strategic direction of the largest hospital in the health system. Thomas joined Baptist Health in 2011 and in 2016, she was named president of Baptist Medical Center South, becoming the first female and first African American to lead a hospital in Baptist Health’s history.

Through the years, Thomas has held several system roles at Baptist Health, including co-chairing its diversity, equity and inclusion council; chairing its transformation council; stepping in as interim chief human resources officer; and serving as senior vice president of specialty services overseeing neurosciences, orthopedics and oncology, with primary executive responsibility for the formation of Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2015. Prior to joining Baptist, she was assistant vice president of physician operations for St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston, and operations administrator at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.

A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Thomas was named among Modern Healthcare magazine’s “Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare” in 2018 and 2020, and one of 70 African American leaders in healthcare to know by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2020.